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University of Colorado Boulder

Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education

This course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is inclusive to students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. We cover effective practices to increase inclusion and avoid some of the common accessibility issues that can arise in an online course. In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities. This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users. Course logo credit: "web accessibility word cloud" by Jill Wright (https://goo.gl/xyUoeU). Copyright - some rights remain. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Status: Document Management
Status: Technical Communication
BeginnerCourse9 hours

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MP

5.0Reviewed Mar 28, 2021

A great introduction to accessibility in online learning. Not just theory but practical instructions for using many readily available tools.

DO

5.0Reviewed Jul 5, 2020

I really enjoyed this course, it really helped me look for ways I could make my work more accesible to others.

DH

5.0Reviewed Apr 8, 2021

This course showed me many areas that I could improve my teaching experience. Something as simple as adding captions can make or break students ability to retain the information.

AA

4.0Reviewed Sep 1, 2020

some videos translation is not good else the course is very useful to learn different aspects of video making

RS

5.0Reviewed Oct 23, 2020

I have learned a lot from the course I enrolled and i am looking forward for my next course.

SM

5.0Reviewed Feb 23, 2019

Very useful. Practical. I can confidently recommend this for anyone interested in inclusive educaiton

LH

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2019

The design plan for this course progressed along a logical pathway for understanding. Including scenario-based assignments was a strength of the course.

JA

5.0Reviewed Oct 29, 2021

This is course is worth finishing. The topics are helpful especially that we are in new setup in learning.

DN

5.0Reviewed Apr 24, 2020

After taking this course I now understand accessibility and I am able to apply this new found knowledge to the courses I build to create a more inclusive online educational experience for students.

JL

4.0Reviewed Jul 7, 2019

Very informative and the design makes it possible to complete while working full-time. Thank you!

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